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Message: [QUOTE="Plebe, post: 3411859, member: 6927"] Lots of reasons have been posited and explained in this thread by those who feel that way. If you don't agree, that's fine and good. But reasons there are. Just because it shouldn't have been discontinued doesn't mean it should necessarily be resumed 15 years later. Those are two separate issues. Just because you rue the day your girlfriend broke up with you in high school doesn't mean you should chase her down and propose to her decades later. Fixed that for ya. The rivalry is nostalgic. It dredges up the old animosities among those of us who were part of the rivalry in its heyday. But Tennessee is not the program it once was. They barely squeaked into the tournament as a bubble team last year -- and their fans were actually celebrating that they did. Their new coach seems like an upgrade -- but that has yet to translate to major wins on the court or recruiting trail. Other programs have obviously eclipsed Tennessee, even within its own conference. [/QUOTE]